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Sanskriti Das and Tharindu Jayasinghe win Presidential Fellowships
Some extremely happy news for our graduate students: Both Sanskriti Das and Tharindu Jayasinghe have won Presidential Fellowships. For those not familiar, the Presidential Fellowship…
Paul Martini named AAAS Fellow
Ten Arts and Sciences faculty named 2020 AAAS FellowsOf the 11 Ohio State scientists elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year, 10 are…
The universe is getting hot, hot, hot
The universe is getting hotter, a new study has found.
The study, published Oct. 13 in the Astrophysical Journal, probed the thermal history of the universe over the last 10…
Astronomy Welcomes Josh Carroll
We are delighted to announce that Josh Carroll will be the new ASCTech Senior Systems Manager for Astronomy! Josh comes to us from Math and Statistics where he led the ASCTech…
Rogue planets could outnumber the stars
An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets – planets that float in space without orbiting a sun – than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes.
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2020 SURP finishes strong with first online symposium
This summer, the OSU Department of Astronomy hosted 18 students for the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP). These students conducted astronomy research projects that were performed…
Powdering Up for Neutrinos
Supernovae are some of the brightest objects in the Universe, not only in light but also in neutrinos. In 1987, neutrino experiments got their first sampling of these supernova…
150 Years of Ohio State: Research and Creative Expression Innovators
Two Ohio State Astronomers make the Office of Research's list of 150 years of innovation.
Congratulations to
Kris Stanek for his research on the explosive deaths of…
AN ELEMENTAL PROBLEM WITH THE SUN
For two decades, astronomers have argued over how much carbon, nitrogen and especially oxygen lie within our closest star — a dispute with implications for the entire universe.
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